| "Excellence is not
an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process."
Tabula
has an unusually strong leadership team with backgrounds from the
EDA and semiconductor industries. All members of our executive staff
held VP/CXO level positions at relevant companies prior to joining
Tabula. Dennis
Segers, CEO Before
joining Simplex, Steve co-founded two successful biotechnology companies:
CombiChem (NSDQ: CCHM, later acquired by DuPont Pharmaceuticals),
where he was CTO, and BioCAD, where he was CTO and, later, CEO.
At CombiChem, Steve invented and led the development of the company’s
revolutionary Discovery Engine technology, with which CombiChem
discovered pharmaceutical-lead compounds for 11 different therapeutic
areas in only five years. At BioCAD, Steve designed Catalyst, which
is still the leading software used worldwide for pharmaceutical
discovery. Previously, Alain managed Altera’s consumer, computer, and industrial business group, where he lead the rapid growth of Altera’s business outside of the communications market segment, particularly in new, high-volume consumer applications. Alain also led the definition and launch of Altera’s Cyclone FPGA family, the world’s first true low-cost FPGA product targeting high-volume consumer applications. Before joining Altera, Alain was at LSI Logic for almost 10 years, where he held various senior marketing and sales management positions. He led LSI Logic’s European sales organization in the computer and consumer segments, and moved to LSI Logic’s headquarters in Milpitas, California in the mid-1990’s. There he led the team that introduced the world’s first integrated DVD player/decoder chip and gave LSI Logic the top market-share position in this market. Alain
started his career as a product engineer at IBM Semiconductor. Alain
received an M.S.E.E. from Ecole Centrale, Lyon, France, and a Master
of Sciences in solid-state physics from Universite Claude Bernard,
Lyon, France. Prior to SanDisk, Matt served as Vice President at Matrix Semiconductor, where he drove product development activities that encompassed product, process, and technology development. In this role Matt oversaw the successful development and mass production of two generations of 3D one-time-programmable (OTP) products. He also held both management and senior technical roles where he worked on a broad array of test vehicles and products, with responsibilities in architecture definition, circuit and layout design, CAD definition and implementation, and silicon debug and characterization. Before
Matrix, Matt held management and staff positions at AMD where he
contributed to the successful K6, K7, and K8 processor line, working
on a wide variety of digital, mixed signal, and analog design projects,
ranging from high-speed RAM blocks to PLL and I/O solutions. Matt
joined AMD by way of the NexGen acquisition; at NexGen, Matt was
a staff designer focused on high-speed I/O design as well as packaging
and signal integrity modeling and simulation. Matt
started his career as a design engineer at Amdahl Corporation. He
received a degree in electrical engineering from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds over 15 U.S. patents.
Matt also serves as a technical committee member for the GSA. Before Xilinx, Daniel was a member of the technical staff at LSI Logic Corporation. With more than 20 years of collective experience in semiconductors, Daniel has served as a member of the Technology Strategy Committee of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), has published numerous technical publications and holds more than ten patents. Daniel
received his bachelor's degree in engineering physics from the UAM,
Mexico and graduate degrees in applied physics and electrical engineering
from Harvard University and UCLA, respectively.
Previously, Michal was software manager for new development of ultrasound systems at Acuson. Before joining Acuson, Michal worked with Tabula President and CTO Steve Teig at BioCAD, as vice president of engineering, heading the Catalyst development team. After BioCAD was acquired by MSI, Michal integrated the two companies’ product lines and development teams, and stayed on to run the Silicon Valley division of MSI. Michal and Steve also teamed at Tangent systems, where Michal was software engineering manager. After Tangent’s acquisition by Cadence Design Systems, Michal managed the development of Cadence place-and-route systems. Michal came to Tangent from Daisy Systems, where she was manager of software engineering for the company in Israel. Michal
received her computer-sciences training and started her career in
the famed Israeli Army Computer Unit. Michal Jacobi received a B.Sc,
Cum Laude, in Life Sciences from Tel Aviv University, Israel. Before joining Copper Mountain, Mike was vice president, business development at Shiva Corporation, where he was responsible for all aspects of Shiva’s business development strategy, including strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and technology licensing activities. Previously, Mike was co-founder and vice president, business development for AirSoft, Inc., from 1993 until its acquisition by Shiva in 1996. Mike
holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and an MBA
from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. |
